Combination electric lamp and stove.



N. G. NICOLL.

COMBINATION ELECTRIC LAMP AND STOVE.

APPLICATION FILED APR. 5 me.

1,205,380. Patented Nov. 21, 1916.

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NORMAN G. NICOLL, OF NEWARK, NEW JERSEY, A SSIGNOR T0 RUBES ELECTRIC DEVICES INC., A CORPORATION OF NEW YORK. I

COMBINATION ELECTRIC LAMP AND STOVE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Nov. 21, 1916.

Application filed April 5, 1916. Serial No. 89,008.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, NORMAN G. NIooLL, a citizen of the United States, residing at the city of Newark, Essex county, in the State of New Jersey, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Combination Electric Lamps and Stoves, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact specification.

This invention relates to an improvement in electrical apparatus, and the same hasfor its object to provide an apparatus which may be used for illuminating purposes or for heating or cooking.

Further, the invention has for its object to provide an electric lamp with a shade carrying a heating element adapted for electrical connection with the conductors employed for carrying the electric current to thelamp.

Further, the invention has for its object to provide a lamp with a shade carrying a heating element connected to a plug secured to the shade and adapted for engagement with the electric light socket of the lamp.

Further, the invention has for its object to provide a lamp with a shade adapted for use as a heater, and with cooking utensils adapted for use in connection with the lamp shade when it is being used as a heater.

Further, the invention has for its object to providea lamp in which cooking utensils are housed within its base.

Other objects will in part be obvious and in part be pointed out hereinafter.

To the attainment of the aforesaid objects and ends, my invention consists in the novel details of construction, and in the combination, connection and arrangement of parts hereinafter more fully described and then' pointed out in the claims.

In the accompanying drawings showing an illustrative embodiment of the inventionFigure 1 is a side elevational view of" at its upper end with a suitable electric socket 13' of any approved type adapted to receive an electric light bulb 14. The base 10 is also provided with a support 15 which serves to hold a lamp shade 16 made of any suitable material and preferably having the form of a truncated pyramid or cone" the walls of which converge from the lower portion of the shade toward the top thereof. A two-strand conductor 17 passes through anopening 18 in the uppor portion 12 of the base 10 and the ends of the strands are connected to the terminals of the socket 13. At its other end the conductor 17 is provided with a suitable plug, not shown, adapted to engage a socket of an electric light fixture or the like, whereby the terminals of the socket 13' will be in electrical connection with a source of supply of electrlc current. i

The inner surface of the lamp shade 16 carries a heating element 19 consisting of a plurality of turns of wire, and the heating element is held out of contact with the lamp shade by a layer of material 20, such as asbestos, which is a non-conductor of heat and also of electricity. The ends of the wire Fig. 2 there are three of these utensils, a

toaster 23, a receptacle 24, and a grill 25. The toaster 23 consists of a basket of reticulated material conforming'in shape with the lamp shade 16' and having an outwardly extending flange 26 adapted to engage the edge of the lamp shade when in its inverted position in order that the toaster will be held in its proper position with its walls in close proximity to the heating element 16. The receptacle 24' also conforms in shape with the lamp shade 16 and is provided with an outwardly extending flange 27 by which it is supported upon the edge of the inverted lamp shade. The receptacle 24 is preferably of slightly smaller dimension than the toaster 23 in order that it may be nested within the toaster when the utensils are housed within the base as shown in Fig. 2. The grill 25 ismade in the usual form of fie devices of this character and is of such dimensions that it will rest upon the edge of the inverted lamp shade.

When the cooking utensils are housed within the hollow portion 11 of the base 10 of the lamp they are retained therein in any suitable manner, as for example, by means of a removable bottom plate 29 ha ing an upwardly extending peripheral flange 30 provided with a groove 31 adapted to engage an inwardly extending flange 32 formed upon the hollow portion 11 adjacent its lower edge, the resiliency of the parts permitting the engagement and disengagement of the groove 31 with the flange 32, whereby the plate 29 may be secured to or removed from the base 10.

The operation of the device is as follows: When the device is to be used as a lamp, the cooking utensils '23, 24C and 25 are housed within the base 10, the lamp shade 16 is carried in its normal or upright position upon the support 15 and the electric light bulb 14 is secured within the socket 13, as shown in Fig. 1. hen it is desired to use the device for heating or cooking the bulb 14 is removed as is also the detachable member 22 which incloses the plug 21. The lamp shade 16 is then removed from the support 15 and inverted, and the plug 21 is attached to the socket 13 thus connecting the heating element 19 with the source of supply of the electric current. The device now serves as a heater to heat the compartment or room in which it is situated.

If it is desired to toast bread, the toaster 23 is removed from the base 10 and placed in position within the inverted lamp shade and the bread to be toasted is placed within the toaster 23 against the side walls thereof. For heating water or the like or for boiling any article of food, the receptacle 24 is employed instead of the toaster, and if it is desired to broil chops or the like, the grill 25 is utilized. The grill is preferably provided with a drip pan 28 to prevent grease from dropping into the lamp shade and this pan, which is provided with flanges adapted to engage the insulating material 20, may be utilized for frying purposes if desired.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent is 1. An apparatus of the character described comprising a base, and a member serving as a shade when the apparatus is used for illuminating purposes, and serving as a heater when said apparatus is used for heating purposes, substantially as specified.

2. An apparatus of the character described comprising a base having a cooking utensil housed therein, and a member serving as a shade when the apparatus is used for illuminating purposes, and serving as a heater to receive said cooking utensil when the apparatus is used for cooking purposes, substantially as specified.

3. An apparatus of the character described comprising a base provided with electrical terminals, and a lamp shade carrying a heating element adapted for electrical connection with said electrical terminals, substantially as specified.

1. An apparatus of the character described comprising a base provided with a socket, a lamp shade, a plug carried thereby and adapted for engagement with said socket, and a heating element carried by said lamp shade and electrically connected to said plug, substantially as specified.

An apparatus of the character described comprising a base provided with supporting means and with electrical terminals, and a lamp shade adapted to be supported in its upright position by said supporting means, said lamp shade being provided with a heating element having electrical terminals adapted to engage said firstnamed electrical terminals when said lamp shade is inverted, substantially as specified.

6. An apparatus of the character de scribed comprising a base provided with supporting means and with a socket, and a lamp shade adapted to be supported by said supporting means when in its upright position, said lamp shade being provided with a heating element and with a plug electrically connected to said heating element and adapted for engagement with said socket when said lamp shade is inverted, substantially as specified.

7. An apparatus of the character described comprising a base provided with supporting means and with a socket, a lamp shade the lower portion of which is adapted to engage said supporting means, said lamp shade being provided with a plug at its upper portion .adapted for engagement with said socket, and a heating element carried by said lamp shade and electrically connected to said plug, substantially as specified.

8. An apparatus of the character described comprising a base provided with electrical terminals, and a lamp adapted to be supported in its upright position by said base, said lamp shade having a heating element carried by its inner surface, said heating element being provided with lectrical terminals for engagement with said first-named electrical terminals when said lamp shade is inverted, substantially as specified.

9. An apparatus of the character described comprising a base provided with electrical terminals, a lamp shade adapted to be supported in its upright position by said base, said lamp shade having a heating element carried by its inner surface, said heating element being provided with electrical terminals for engagement with said shade first-named electrical terminals when said lamp shade is inverted, and a cooking uten- 1 sil normally housed within said base and adapted to be supported by said lamp shade in operative relation to said heating element When said shade is in its inverted position, substantially as specified.

10. An apparatus of the character described comprising a base provided: with electrical terminals, a lamp shade adapted to be supported in its upright position by said base, said lamp shade having a heating element carried by its inner surface, said heating element being provided with electrical terminals for engagement with said first-named electrical terminals when said lamp shade is inverted, and a cooking utensil normally housed within said base and adapted to be supported by said lamp shade in operative relation to said heating element when said shade is in its inverted position, said cooking utensil conforming to theshape of the lamp shade, substantially as specified.

' 11. An apparatus of the character described comprising a base provided with electrical terminals, a lamp shade adapted to be supported in its upright position by said base, said lamp shade having a heating element carried by its inner surface, said heating element being provided with electrical terminals for engagement with said firstnamed electrical terminals when said lamp shade is inverted, and a plurality of cooking utensils normally housed Within said base any one of which is adapted to be supported by said lamp shade in operative relation to said heating element when said lamp shade is in its inverted position, substantially as specified.

12. An apparatus of the character described comprising a base provided with a socket, a lamp shade, a plug carried thereby and adapted for engagement with said socket, and a heating element carried by said lamp shade and electrically connected to said plug, said shade being provided with a detachable portion normally concealing said plug, substantially as specified Signed at the city of New York, in the county and State of New York, this second day of March, one thousand nine hundred and sixteen.

NORMAN G. NICOLL. Witnesses:

CONRAD A. Dm'rnnion, J osnrn G. QUINN, Jr.

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